Dronenburg v. Vice Admiral Lando Zech’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 1388 · 1984
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 25 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. (1991)
58 federal appellate · 25 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 105 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Boyd v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action in a court of the United States seeking relief other than money damages and stating a claim that an agency ... acted or failed to act ... shall not be dismissed nor relief therein be denied on the ground that it is against the United States or that the United States is an indispensable party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“then appellant's right to equal protection is not infringed unless the Navy's policy is not rationally related to a permissible end.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“27-year-old petty officer [who] had [had] repeated sexual relations with a 19-year-old seaman recruit”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.